skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the sad part is we all know what the problem is, because its always the same problem (more or less) everywhere

Put Designers and Thinkers on top ... not project managers and follow uppers

Those who get promoted and run large organization are almost always not the smart designer thinker type, but the project manager, follow upper with a good spirit and cute time management skills

Apple also recently picked a project manager on top, lets see if i will be proven right AAPL close today at 666.8 (cute number) I think it will go back to 30 USD in half the time it took it to go up from there (AAPL was selling for 30 USD in 2004)
Limited to specific domains (::Universities), I'm not sure of, but before they opened it to public registrations, the requirement was that you had to have a .edu e-mail address.
ah, thanks. with "get it first", things makes more sense (i was assuming people had different offers and you somehow rotated though a set, but with your approach i guess you can focus on more attractive pieces and set higher values).
Rent a different banquet hall, of course
Moral of the story, yet again, ad infinitum: don't waste your time watering somebody's else's garden. Yes it's the Internet and technically data is practically almost free to reproduce, but this doesn't imply a trouble-free right to steal your neighbour's database and proclaim your 100 line Javascript hack a startup. Borrowing content like that only works when you have lawyers, cash, and an excess of testosterone or stupidity (see also: YouTube)
It would be funnier if it wasn't so sad and pathetic.
+1. The folks at hypothes.is certainly have the hacker ethos of openness and transparency at their core.
Ugghhh...

I feel like the word "Republicans" is starting to refer to a weird, faceless, unrelatable entity. Like some weird urban legend. I'd probably believe it if I was told that they live in burrows underground.

Then again, I do live in SF.
I definitely feel this. I'm only 24, but already I can feel the effects of being in a chair for 8-16 hours a day. It's sad that it is happening so quickly, but it has really made me realize how much I need to break the cycle and start thinking about this now, rather than just deferring it till when I have time.

Also I deeply feel the mental bubble that forms around me when i'm programming. It makes it scarily easy to just start withdrawing from other people and the world around me.
yeah, i can understand that, and i don't think it's so odd - you want to see it and, sometimes, know the artist too. but that doesn't exclude online marketplaces as long as they are local (i didn't explain completely, but the site i used as an example has artists local to me).

and i guess that also explains sumo's approach? choosing a particularly good item and then having a first-to-buy approach gives both a carrot (attractive to many) and stick (limited availability) to overcome the remote factor.

thanks for the replies. i was curious how it could work and now it makes more sense.
That I agree on, it is conceptually different (and more primitive); the whole conversation just reminded me of GEB.
I wonder what kind of answers he gets for that. I think I would probably answer that verbally as "sixteen, spelled one-zero".
Am I reading this correctly? they are using comtypes as an exploratory tool, but the photo upload feature was written in something else...

(I haven't disassembled the dropbox dlls, but there aren't any obvious python signatures in the install directory)

If the above is wrong, I would love to know what they are using!
When you make a software change that allows you to reduce your server pool from 30 to 3, you don't say, "27 servers cut". You say "Servers reduced by 90%." I have no idea what "27 servers" actually means: you could have been using a thousand servers for all I know.
"simplicity is at the heart of LinkedIn’s mobile vision." Then the article goes on to describe complexities of the implementation. Maybe my old and cranky mind has lost touch with what people mean by "simple".
Makes me miss Europe. I had this in Sweden for ~40/month
http://www.speedtest.net/result/595054175.png
Some think it's a bug, that's how broken this is...
Kevin Rose Interviews Matt Rogers (Nest/Ex-Apple) for Foundation
This is why I'm happy to connect with my more conservative friends over social media. It helps me understand that even if the Republicans in Maine are doing stupid shit like this, that not all people who identify as Republican are like that.
The comments that they dredged up were technically public, though I assume she made them under the assumption that people outside that immediate audience wouldn't be reading them.

Even if she doesn't lose the election because of this, it is a shame she has to deal with this kind of crap at all.
I was going to assume everyone is happy there since they should realize when joining that they're facing big challenges, but I was surprised to see so many disgruntled people on Glassdoor:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Tesla-Motors-Reviews-E43129...

Tough to say what the stories were behind all of these, but I can see how they might feel the need to push people way harder than normal, because during yesterday's presidential debate Romney lumped Tesla in with a list of losers that the government has given money to. Plenty of people are expecting them to fail even though many of us are excited at their prospects. In such an environment, I can see how Elon Musk might push some workers beyond what they can handle. However, I'd expect many of them are still happy to be part of the team even though the work is hard, because a Tesla employee really is part of something more world-changing than an Electronic Arts coder is.
If you <3 EventMachine, check out Celluloid. It's a vastly more sensible approach to asynchronous code in ruby imo - uses the Actor Model (from erlang OTP, etc) to great effect.
How Much is Your App Worth?
In this interview I speak with Chelsea Tharp from Apptopia, the marketplace for mobile app acquisitions. We speak about selling apps, how they arrive at valuations and a shift in how people view apps.
Free Web Application Scanners
Unfortunately, it's not the people doing the stupid shit you have to worry about. It's the people who believe stupid shit like this...
RingCentral.com Fake Email Scam - Phishing Attempts On High Alert
Surprisingly enough, I found myself reading this article while on hold and listening to terribly distorted music.
>How are they being a bully? It's their service. If they want to kick someone off it and develop a competitor, that's their prerogative.

So? They're still being a bully. Just because you're acting within the confines of the law and your rights doesn't necessarily mean you aren't being a dick about it.
Normally I would agree with you, but the controls you are calling for are unrealistic. While I'm no expert in the field, this is clearly not the first study to suggest long-term cognitive decline in adolescent-onset users, and any evidence that can support previous findings, albeit very small, is important to consider.

I think the authors are correct in stating that there is a popular and naive belief among adolescents that cannabis is safe - especially in moderation - and the evidence to date does nothing but refute that. Hell, in this study they found a statistically significant IQ drop (over the course of 20 years) for adolescent-onset users that only smoked 14 days out of the year on average (the median, to be precise). Even if they do put forth incomplete or questionable conclusions, teens should be exposed to more of these findings and be allowed to think for themselves. They certainly should not have to endure the inane public service announcements that merely reinforce the belief that marijuana is not actually "that bad."
Todon't
That wasn't fair. Pricing so close to COGS that you can't sustainably deliver the product isn't price innovation, nor is pricing so low that COGS forces you to deliver an inferior product; the comment you're responding to took pains to spell out why this particular 3d printer price didn't make much sense.

The consistent hostility towards low prices on HN is based on this site's manifest tendency to underprice things, or to calculate price from cost or from pie-eyed notions of how big their addressable markets are.
No, Dropbox is using Python and comtypes in its actual product.
FWIW - it has been reconsidered in Ruby - all values are truthy except nil and false.
Great idea for a tumblog!
I second Stripe. When logged in, they even place your api key into the reference examples, so that you can copy paste working code.
Switching branches is cheap, I'd say the "right" way to get a tree like you want is to have two or even five branches all the time you're working. But I suspect you could make two branches and cherry-pick different sets of commits onto them to get the result you're after. To my mind it wouldn't be worth the effort though; how often do you really care whether the code worked with only 1 and 4 applied?
> streets in Manhattan

I haven't really had a big problem with Apple maps in NYC, and for transit I tie into "iTrans NYC" or "iTrans MNR".

The trick with Apple's search, as well as Google's search, in downtown NYC is to not use "New York City" as the town name, but "Manhattan". This stops you from getting addresses in Queens and whatnot which also fall under "New York City" and "NYC" city names. More people walk nav those areas, which is why they tend to be offered before the Manhattan ones.

For my own walking map, I use "Exit Strategy", which shows the NYC neighborhood street maps with the subway stations marked so you can see all the entrances and exits. This app also tells you which car of the subway to get on to be right at the street exit you want at the end of your ride. I used this as my walking street map in iOS 5 as well, it beats Google Maps and works offline.

For all in one navigation, maps, POIs, traffic, vehicle/public/pedestrian nav, consider Navigon. I find it the best of breed.
Node.js stream handbook
So more like 4 billion.
HFT doesn't drive the market. The market is driven by pension funds, mutual funds, sovereign wealth funds, banks, corporations investing on their own behalf, and private equity funds and hedge funds. HFT traders act as intermediaries when these big players make transactions, but they don't have much to do with market functions like resource allocation. They can't. They don't take positions.
Richard Feynman.
I was kind of hoping craigslist was cooking up something awesome, and waiting for the product to be fully polished and "magical, revolutionary" before launching it. unfortunately, this just feels like they rushed out of the door with the first thing they could mash up. specifically, two shortcomings:
1. as far as i can tell, it doesn't show you what listings you've already clicked on, unlike every map based apartment search out there
2. it doesn't appear to be loading the data as you scroll around the map - it loads it all at once up front. of course it's nice that you don't have to wait for it to load as you scroll, but that means there's an upper bound to the number of listings you can search through, and just goes to show how incomplete their implementation is. i'm guessing that's why it isn't offered in NY yet - too many listings to serve all at once
I certainly prefer it.

Tokenadult, keep posting.

Also, take a page from patio11's book and start selling access to this advice. (and perhaps consulting).
It's a shame that she has to deal with this kind of crap at all, although she should have known better. If you're going to run for office, you should just assume that anything you do on any public web site (even a de-facto private one like that) will be taken out of context and used against you.

I can see some poor campaign intern, years from now, slogging through all of my HN comments to find something to use against me while I run for local office. Poor kid.
> It feels like a trap.

Reality is filled with traps.

> steer the candidate off on a tangent

Customers, coworkers, managers, do this intentionally or not, maliciously or not.

Any good candidate can do the technical job. Great candidates can survive and thrive in the work place.
I don't see why the "right" thing would be to reward someone for breaking your ToS and stealing your database as a means of creating a potential competitor to your business.

On top of that, even if PadMapper had not been slimy, I don't see why it's "right" to pay a sum for something you're perfectly capable of building yourself for less time, money, effort, and headache than what an acquisition would cost.
Your name as bgcolor
I hope she'll bury them in the election over this, but I'd be surprised if it had much effect.
The linked article talks about a government agency (NYC Fire Department) who imposed a written exam for fire fighters; the judge ruled that the exam was discriminatory in results and was not shown (could not be shown) to be related to job performance. That's what made it illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

You don't have to worry about this if you're a private California software company assigning work-sample tests that are "100% spot on for job performance." Job performance is not linked to race.

(If you think that job performance at a software company is linked to race, I recommend that you keep your opinion to yourself. Maybe you can use it to your private advantage! ... or maybe you have racist assumptions.)
I remember reading a blog post of the peculiarities of GPU programming and the post noting that for most modern graphics cards (at the time) if you can keep your computable data in chunks no bigger than 64kb a piece you can expect to see enormous performance gains even on top of what you'll see by using openCL/CUDA because of a physical memory limit on the actual GPU itself.

I also remember thinking that a 64kb row size for DynamoDB was very odd.

I wonder if these things are at all related.
There has to be large scale call centres. The number of calls they're making is impressive. I got two of them from different people last night (I'm in Australia).
What Does It Take to Create Healthy Mobile Developer Communities
It's got a slightly longer history than just being a Joel Spolsky meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
So CL are bullies for dictating what people can do with their data?
The innovator's (shortest) credo
The Protocol Shirt
Just wondering, is this product just putting a better interface/ aggregation on Facebook retargeting or giving companies access to their retargeting features that aren't available to all yet?
Actually its pretty good - solves 90% of the use cases for me. And it feels much faster than padmapper.
> Craigslist is suing 3Taps for using Google's Data.
Even then, it's good to remember that people who believe that World of Warcraft is an existential threat to our country are still real people and that they can change their perspectives.

When I was in high school, one of my close friends refused to see The Nightmare Before Christmas with me because she thought it was Satanic and dangerous. Now she loves the movie. Sometimes it just takes... 19 years.
Without citing versions, it's hard to extract anything useful from this article. Rails 2.1 on ree-1.8.7 performs very differently than Rails 3.2 on 1.9.3-p194.
I don't see this turning out well for the accusers. The audience that they are reaching online via a website, plus the bloggers and other news sources that are going to cover this are more likely to have a sympathetic outlook toward someone that plays video games and will feel the accusers are the ones who are not in tune with the real world.
Honestly I see no problems with dredging up such comments. If it works for votes, then have at it. I hope to see more of it from both sides.

why?

Because people need to realize how little anonymity they truly have. There is no privacy online. Anyone with the time and resources is going to find out if you have an online presence and what you have been doing.

Politics is a dirty game. Candidates and their sycophants are constantly digging up facts about opponents and would be opponents. National campaigns employ teams of people just for this purpose. Every utterance, whether direct or an alias is subject to being found.

That it is happening to a politician is all the better. Both sides feed on prejudices, apparently this group thinks that playing fantasy games is a bad thing.
UN IP group tells Pirate Party: You can't even watch
Here's the code on github which explains the above claim:
https://github.com/Dirktheman/rsa-codeigniter-library/blob/m...

I count about 570 different primes there, so ~9.1 bits of entropy, but yeah. This is utterly trivial to brute force, with or without the given table of fixed primes, as it's very very easy to factor primes of this size. This is like 24-bit RSA.

"The advanced RSA-encryption will take a supercomputer thousands of years to break!"

s/years/nanoseconds/

BTW, I fell into a similar trap with ~125-bit RSA, which can also be broken in seconds:
http://www.a1k0n.net/2009/03/31/hacker-challenge.html
JQAPI - jQuery Documentation Browser, Crowdfunding Campaign
Microsoft.com is not a website
Fellow aussie Troy Hunt seems to love messing with these people.

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/08/cold-call-scammed-again-but-...

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/04/type-www-ok-w-w-w-d-o-t-anta...
Ask HN: I'm Talking to a High School Class about Entrepreneurship 
What are critical points to hit to make it relevant to them?
What were the interviewers trying to find out by asking those questions?
Zynga shares tumble on lower 3Q outlook, with big charge from OMGPop acquisition
60 character solution in LiveScript[0], without using 'if's, also easily extensible!

[1 to 100]map(->[s for s,n of{Fizz:3,Buzz:5}|it%n<1]*''||it)

[0]http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/
I look forward to seeing C as the go-to web-development language.

Really? C for a problem that is largely string manipulation and database access?
Any idea what they are using to package the Python into the exe?

I've tried py2exe and all of the similar packagers that I could find, and every one of them requires brittle incantations to get everything packaged (I'm using a lot of graphics and number-crunching code beyond standard python, but all from the package index). I guess on the scale of Dropbox this is probably not a big issue. On my scale (1), it's one of the reasons I've started using C# (an unexpectedly awesome experience so far, btw). I need the fastest possible path to one-click exe files that non-technical (bio/chem) researchers and RAs can run. I've belatedly realized that the overhead of doing this in python is really too high.

[edit: found this SO answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2678180/how-does-dropbox-... but it doesn't give specifics. In particular, AFAIK, none of the packagers can eat libpython.dll into a larger exe files]

[edit: interesting - http://blog.codepainters.com/2012/09/17/python-care-and-feed... ]
You just used "fully polished", "magical" and "revolutionary" in the same sentence as craigslist. There's no precedent for any of those adjectives.
> Customers, coworkers, managers, do this intentionally or not, maliciously or not.

None of these situations are the same as an interview. If you're providing an explanation at the behest of the interviewer, why not also depart on a tangent, also at the behest of the interviewer?
Yeah as the article notes the old version used HTML and the new version uses binary blobs.

This is hardly surprising.
Should You Go on Google's Field Trip?
This situation is "good" from a "raising awareness of privacy issues and concerns" standpoint.

From the standpoint of the individual in question, who we should of course feel empathy for? Awful.

From a "quality of political discourse and health of the democracy" standpoint? Gag.
Some Schools Actually Want Students To Play With Their Smartphones In Class
I think they mean that you can design your application to be used on a mobile phone as long as it runs in the browser, not directly on the phone.
The idea that Craigslist owns their posts is ridiculous. It may be true from a legal point of view, but from a moral point of view they're just the custodian of that data for the people posting it, and they should act as such.
Just drive 90 minutes East. You'll know you're in red territory when every Prius on the road suddenly becomes a huge truck.
Is this the first taste of the future of politics? Smear websites dredging up every silly / facetious / dumb comment someone has ever made?

The smear site is linked to in the article and can be found: http://www.colleensworld.com/

The whole site is made up of pictures of her comments from reddit. I suppose older folks will probably be very unhappy with many of her comments, but she just sounds like a normal person who uses the reddit and plays WoW.

Actually scratch that, having played WoW she is definitely far above average :). Too bad I don't live in Maine though!

I guess we can only hope that this stuff isn't convincing to people who actually use the internet, and that in the future it won't work.
vhf- sorry about not clarifying
web=laptop/desktop browser based app
mobile web=mobile browser based app
You are technically right.web=browser based. But we decided to distinguish just a bit to encourage mobile focused web applications as well.
Exactly, this comment should really be higher up.

Liav, the designer of the PandaBot, was one of the first people in Canada to build a RepRap Darwin. The year Panda Robotics took to develop the Pandabot is the result of many years of prior 3D printer experience on Liav's part.
As nice as their offering looks, their TOS prohibits hosting content that is "pornographic, obscene, fraudulent, or discriminatory, including any containing nudity, erotica, profanity, or obscenities" which is extremely restrictive. If you host a website that allows user content, someone posting the word "shit" or posting nude art photography could get your account closed. No thanks.
Can we enter multiple targeting sites? It seems as if its limited to 1 per account right now
I kind of expect this to turn out like a minor version of SOPA...

They are targeting her for doing something that SO MANY people do that you're going to make all those people take her side when otherwise they probably wouldn't have cared.
Worst campaign move ever... don't those guys know this is the 21st century and online games are normal?
Narrow Water Bridge planning permission 'expected' tomorrow
I've been trying to get my lad in to Scratch.

The OP's app looks to be like Logo Turtle which was taught to me as a child in the UK c.1984. Indeed IIRC most schools in my area had this and some [later?] had a real-life 'turtle' that you could move around (connected by a long Centronics cable I think).

There was a toy called Big Track (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035IZ85G?ie=UTF8&camp... : aff) that allowed small sets of serialised instructions to be entered. Robosapiens are probably the modern equivalent.
Great resource, adding on top of other hard-to-find resources that others had pointed out before. (Nice use of a presentation in the browser too.)
If you're confused by the total lack of UI, try the arrow keys (facepalm?).
Facebook's Population Is Now as Big as the Entire World's Was in 1804
Sigh. Thanks. This is the second time I've been caught with an eggcorn[0]. First "windshield factor"[1], now "for prosperity sake". Looks like I might have the privilege of adding to their database myself this time...

We'll just keep this between you and me right?

[0] http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

[1] http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/index.php?s=windshield
There is probably a pretty big social gulf between the people working these boiler room scams and your colleagues.
I was exaggerating for effect, I have no idea what they really think.